We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware VSphere is the winner in this comparison. It is easy to deploy, reliable, robust, and has excellent customer support. Hyper-V does come out on top in the pricing category, however.
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The solution is highly stable."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The interface is quite good."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"Storage via SMB3."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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